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which confirmed prior grants from New Hampshire, should 
cease; and she ceded to Vermont her claim of sovereignty 
and jurisdiction over that territory, and consented that Ver- 
mont might be admitted into the federal union as an indepen- 
dent state. In 1791 she was accordingly admitted, after 
seeking admission in vain for thirteen years.* 
In 1795, the exclusion of any other compensation than the 
fund derived from Vermont, was again enacted in the act 
appointing commissioners ‘‘ to make a just and equitable dis- 
tribution ” of that fund.t Claimants were required to present 
their claims, and it was declared 
‘* that all who do not present their claims within one year to 
the aa shall be precluded from all compensation 
whateve 
Sane did not present her claim. Her name is not on 
the commissioners’ ‘‘ minutes” nor among the seventy-six 
distributees,t though Mr. Duane, who for nearly ten years 
prior to 1795 was chairman of her board of trustees, presented 
his claim, and his heirs were allowed his share of about five 
cents per acre, on 52,500 acres. At the same rate, Columbia’s 
share, had she proved her claim, would have been from 
$1,500 to $2,500, according to the acreage she held.§ This 
was more than the land had cost her, as the official fees for 
the patent and the preliminary surveys were the principal 
*Ridpath, Hist. U. S., 366, says this payment was for the purchase of 
Z Ver- 
Commissioners knew, what the Act of 1790 shows, that New York would re- 
ceive the money for the benefit of the New York grantees alone. 
+ Act of April 6, 1795, 3 N. Y. Laws, Ch. 56, p. 578. 3 Green. Laws, 220. 
tSee Commiss. Rept., 1799, Doc. Hist. N. Y., 4: 1024-1025, H. Hall, 
t 
It is uncertain how much land Columbia had. In tee petitions of 
1805 and 1806, ‘‘over 100,000 acres’’ are stated as ‘‘held by a double grant 
from New York and New Hampshire.”’ No i uble dix to Columbia 
1770, of 24,000 acres at Kingsland, now Washington (Vol. 15 of Patents, p. 
